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After releasing the industry’s first CMIS specification draft implementation in its Alfresco Labs 3 in September, Alfresco pours more effort into Content Management Interoperability Services promotion and support. This time -- by releasing Alfresco CMIS Developer Toolbox.

According to a recent study by the 451 Group -- an independent technology industry analyst company -- the pure, non-hybrid open source is, apparently, not a viable business model. Addressing the ever-so-popular question of how to make money from something that’s in its foundation free, the analyst company assessed the development, licensing and revenue-generation strategies used by open source. At the same time, we’ve noticed that software giants like Microsoft started playing friendly in the open source space.

Just yesterday, some major enterprise content management industry heavy weights -- Microsoft, IBM, EMC, Alfresco, Open Text, Oracle and SAP, announced the first ever Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) specification draft enabling interoperability across content repositories. By creating a common API, companies can develop write-once, run-anywhere, content and social applications. As a contributing member of the draft technical specification, Alfresco is able to offer a draft implementation of CMIS for developers who can peruse and explore the draft specification.